Overcoming Hateful Things: Stories from the Jim Crow Museum

Overcoming Hateful Things: Stories from the Jim Crow Museum, explores the Jim Crow system, the African American experience through the Jim Crow era, and the legacies of this system in modern society. Overcoming Hateful Things will cultivate understanding and empathy for victims of racial intolerance throughout history to the modern day and allow visitors to bear witness to the need to guard against the dehumanizing characterizations of others, so they do not become further culturally entrenched.  

From Aunt Jemima advertisements to children’s games, American popular culture is replete with racist images. The Jim Crow Museum features an extensive collection of racist objects that trace the history of the caricaturing and stereotyping of African Americans while promoting racial understanding and healing.